This Week In Ideas Shared With Panopto — November 26, 2014

For those of us in the United States, Thanksgiving is here, and that means celebrating family, food, and football. But before we break for the holiday, we’d like to take a moment to share some great ideas from the more than 4.5 million people who use Panopto in businesses and universities to communicate, share knowledge, and learn.

This week, our customers have presented on interesting topics ranging from leadership and healthcare to handheld technology and social policy. In the spirit of passing it on, these are just a few of the ideas shared this week with Panopto’s video presentation software.

Inspired Leaders Series: Phil Walker
From Hult International Business School is this installment of their Inspired Leaders speaker series featuring Phil Walker, current CEO of consultancy firm Summerswood, Ltd., and previously COO at Capgemini, where he was responsible for six consulting practices. In this conversation, Mr. Walker details his career in consultancy and shares his thoughts on what it takes to be an inspiring leader.

Recovery: The “Sacred Cow” of Modern Mental Health Care
Is mental health recovery overly prescribed? In this presentation from the University College Cork in Ireland, Dr Alastair Morgan explores the notion of recovery as an “ideology” and its implications from a mental health perspective.

The History of Handhelds and Their Interaction Techniques
During this fascinating lecture recording, Professor Brad Myers in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science details the history of handheld computing devices from the earliest PDAs to today’s smartphones and tablets.

The Transformation of Social Protection in Latin America
This enlightening keynote presentation from the recent conference on Latin American social policy held at the University of Bath explores how large-scale, tax-financed social assistance policies are changing institutions in that area of the world, and provides a framework for how we can make sense of these changes.